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onstylisticfeaturesofenglishsportsnews体育新闻英语的文体特征研究英语大学毕设论文
毕业论文
论文题目:
体育新闻英语的文体特征
作者所在系部:
外语系
作者所在专业:
英语
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完成时间:
2013年6月
北华航天工业学院教务处制
OnStylisticFeaturesofEnglishSportsNews
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SubmittedtotheB.A.CommitteeinpartialfulfillmentofTherequirementsoftheDegreeofBachelorofArtsintheForeignLanguagesDepartmentofNorthChinaInstituteofAerospaceandEngineering.
摘要
作为一种社会文明的标志,体育已经成为我们社会和文化生活中不可缺少的一部分。
同时,体育新闻也越来越引起广泛的关注。
然而对体育新闻语言的研究却很有限。
以往的研究多是将新闻英语作为一个整体来进行分析,而体育新闻只是其中的一部分,因此在研究结果中出现了一些差异。
本文认为新闻英语不是单一的,而是一个由不同新闻材料特点合成的语类,包括不同次语类,所以对其语言特点的归纳需给予充分描写。
本文将基于现代文体学的理论,从不同的语言问题特征出发,对英语体育新闻做一个全面的分析。
运用普通的文体学分析方法对新闻中的词汇、句子结构和语义层面进行分析。
使用定性和定量的方法对混淆次做科学分析。
通过以上研究分析报告可以得出结论:
体育新闻报道在词汇、句子结构和语义层面都有其独特的文体特征。
使体育新闻语言更直观、客观、丰富、易于理解的吸引潜在的读者。
关键词:
体育新闻新闻英语文体特征
Abstract
Sportisasignofsocialcivilizationandbecomesanindispensablepartofoursocialandculturallifenow.Therefore,sportsnewsaregettingmoreandmoreattention.However,onlylittleresearchhasbeencarriedouttoanalyzeitsstylisticfeatures.Inpreviousstudies,scholarsmainlyregardthejournalisticEnglishasawholeentity;hencesomedifferencesappearintheirresults.Inthisthesis,itisarguedthatjournalisticEnglishisnotonefold,butacompositeofvariouskindsofnews,whichincludesdifferentsub-varieties.
Basedonthetheoriesofmodernstylistics,thisthesisattemptstolimitthescopetotheanalysisofEnglishsportsnewsreportandtodoanoverallanalysisofsportsnewsreportsfromdifferentlevelinlinguisticsstylisticfeatures.Iwouldusequalitativeandquantitativemethodstodoascientificanalysisonconfusingwords.Basedontheaboveresearch,wecansafelydrawtheconclusionthatsportsnewsreportedinwords,sentencestructureandsemanticlevelwithitsuniqueprominentstylisticfeatures.Allthesefeaturesmakesportsnewslanguagemoreobjective,moreimpersonal,moreinformative,andmorecomprehensibletoattractthepotentialreaders.
Keywords:
Sportsnews,NewsEnglish,Stylisticfeature
Contents
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Abstractii
Introduction1
Chapter1:
TheoriesofSportsNews2
1.1DefinitionofSportsNews2
1.2FunctionsofSportsNews2
1.3TypesofSportsNews3
1.4StructureofSportsNews4
Chapter2:
Variety5
2.1DefinitionofVariety5
2.2NewsEnglishasaVariety6
2.3EnglishSportsNewsasaSub-variety7
Chapter3:
StylisticFeaturesofEnglishSportsNews8
3.1GraphiticFeatures8
3.2LexicalFeatures8
3.3GrammaticalFeatures9
3.4SemanticFeatures10
3.5SentenceFeatures11
Conclusion13
Acknowledgements14
Bibliography15
OnStylisticFeaturesofEnglishSportsNews
Introduction
Sportsplayanimportantroleinsocialandculturallifeofhumansociety.Withthedevelopmentofsocietyandtechnology,sportsjournalismandnewspapershavechangedinveryremarkablewaysandwhatwasoncefunandgamesatcourtisnowmuchmorethanthat.Thedaysofreportersandeditorswhoservedascheerleadersforthehometeamaregone.Weknowthatsportsjournalismhasbeenmaturingsincethefinaldecadeofthe20thcentury.Itisadjustingandchangingrelationsandstandardsinvolvingsportsandsociety(BruceGarrison,1993).Today,sportsfillsmoreavailabletimeontelevisionandhasbecomeamajorsellingpointformanycomprehensivenewspaperordailypapersandtheInternet.Peopleareexposedtosportsnewsmoreoftenthanbefore.
However,linguisticstudyonEnglishsportsnewshasnotbeenpaidenoughattentionandfewworksonsystematicandcomprehensiveanalysisofitslinguisticfeaturescouldbefoundinthelinguisticfield.Sportsnewsreportingisnolongerasimplelistofscoresandresults.Thecontemporarynewsreportsfocusnotonlyontheresultorthescoresofthematchbutalsoonmanythingsotherthanthecompetitionitself.Bymeansoflanguageuse,itreflects,ideas,beliefs,valuesandassumptionsofthesocietyaswellasthoseofthenewsreporters.
FromwhatIhavementioned,IthinktherearethreeproblemsinjournalisticEnglishforsports.Thefirstoneisthattheresearchscopeofthenewsismainlyconfinedtonewsreportinnewspaper,notmentionedineditorialandfeature.Sotheresearchbreadthisnotwideenough.Thesecondoneistheresearchdeepnessisnotprofoundenough.Thoughmanyscholarspointedoutnewswordscouldattractthereaders,theydidnotstudyenoughaboutthereasonofit.ThethirdoneisthatitdoesnotunderstandenoughindealingwiththerelationbetweenjournalismEnglishforsportsandothersubject.Thisthesiswillbedividedintothreechaptersbasedonthetheoryofmodernstylistics.Wewilldiscussthestylisticfeatureofsportsnewsatthelexical,grammaticalandsemanticlevels.Fromwhatisdiscussedcangettheconclusion.
Chapter1:
TheoriesofSportsNews
1.1DefinitionofSportsNews
AccordingtoCambridgeDictionaryofAmericanEnglish,“Newsissomethingtoldashavingjusthappenedorinformationaboutsomethingthatisjusthappeningorwillsoonhappen.”(LiuShisheng,2006)Andthebestnewshasthegreatestinterestofthegreatestnumber.AsJohnBogart,thedirectorofinterviewingdepartmentinTheNewYorkSun,wrotein1880,“Whenadogbitesamanthatisnotnews,butwhenamanbitesadogthatisnews.”(Mencher,1987)
Sportsreportisoneofthesub-varietiesofjournalisticEnglish.Thesportslanguageisnotasformalaseconomicandpoliticallanguage.Themainfunctionofsportsnewsistoreportsportsnews,butonaccountofdifferentmoodsandintentionsincontrasttoothernewsreports.Sportsreportmainlyservestomeetthesportsenthusiasts’interestsincertainnewsitems,soitmaynotbeasseriousaspoliticalnews.Sportsreportcoversawiderange,includingfootball,basketball,swimming,tennis,boxing,trackandfield,cricket,etc.Itinvolvesreportofsportsevents,sportsenvironments,exclusiveinterviewswiththeathletesandeventheanecdotesandgossipsaboutthesportsparticipants.
Allthelarge-scalenewspaperagencies,broadcastingstationsandTVstationshavetheirownindependentsportsdepartmentsorcolumns.Withsomuchcompetition,ofcourseitistoughertogettheattentionofareaderwithsomuchothermaterialavailableforthemtoread.That’swhysportsreportersareworkingsomuchontheirproductsforthecontemporarysportsfans.Sportswritershavetoreportandeditdiversecompetingactivitiesandbroadentheappealingoftheirproducttoattractmorereadersatdifferentlevels.
Atthesametime,sportswritersarealsobecominglessandlesseventorientedandmoreandmorenon-event,orprocessorientedintheirreporting.Theirstoriesbecomemoreinsightfulandinterpretative,andtheemphasisisgivenlessontheresultsandmoreonwhytheseresultsoccurred.Therefore,therangeofsportsstoriesbroadensconsiderablyworld-wide.Althoughsportseventsstillappealtoreaders,interestisgrowinginsportstopicsoffthefieldandcourt.Reporterstendtolookintorestrooms,courtrooms,andtrainingrooms.Meanwhile,moreandmoresportsreportinginvolveathletes,athletesprograms,sportsagents,gambling,theabuseofillegaldrugsandathleticorganizationrulescheatingandsoon.
1.2FunctionsofSportsNews
Englishsportsnewshasthefollowingfivefunctions:
informativefunction,expressivefunction,aestheticfunction,vocativefunctionandentertainingfunction.
AccordingtoNewmark,theinformativefunctionoflanguageisfeaturedwiththeexternalsituationasitscore.Bysayingexternalsituation,PeterNewmarkmeansthefactsofatopic,realityoutsidelanguage,includingreportedideasortheories(Newmark,2001:
40).TheinformativefunctionofEnglishsportsnewsisshownonitsroletohelpreaderstoknowthefactsandrelevantinformationofsports.Thustheaudienceandreaderscansharehappinessofsportsanytimeandanywhere.
Theexpressivefunctionisthemindofthereaderandthewriter,theiroriginatoroftheutterance.Thelanguagewithexpressivefunctionisnormallyself-expressive,creative,figurativeandsubjective(Ibid.:
39).Theexpressivefunctionistosetthetoneofthenewsthustocreateeitheratouching,excitingorhorrifyingeffectonthereaders.
Thelanguagepleasesthereadersandaudiencefirstlythroughitsactualorimaginedsoundandsecondlythroughitsmetaphors.Therhythm,balanceandcontrastsofsentences,clausesandwordsalsoplaytheirrolesinthissense.Theirsound-effectsconsistofonomatopoeia,alliteration,assonance,rhyme,meter,intonation,andstress(Ibid.:
42).
Englishsportsnewsgivesaestheticfunctioninthewaytoprovidethereadersandaudienceaestheticenjoymentthroughcolorfulwordscontainingmanyconnotationsandprovidebeautythroughtheapplicationofrhetoricaldevices.
“Thecoreofthevocativefunctionoflanguageisthereadership,theaddressee’’(Ibid.:
41).Newmarkusestheterm‘'vocative'’inthesenseof”callinguponthereadershiptoact,thinkorfeel,infacttoreactinthewayintendedbythetext”(Ibid.:
41).ThenwecanconcludethatapieceofgoodEnglishsportsnewscanalsocalluponthereaderandaudiencetofocusontheevent.
Englishsportsnewsusuallyusescreativelanguage,flexiblesentencepatternsandvariousrhetoricaldevicestomakevividreports.Sometimes,reportersalsousemanyofthetechniquesusedbyliterarywriterssuchasnovelists.ThesentenceofEnglishsportsnewsissometimescomposedofrhetoricaldeviceslikehyperboleormetaphor.Englishsportsnewspresentsavividpicturetoreadersoraudiencesandaswellenrichessportscultureandsatisfiest
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